2016 Postmortem

Last edited Tue Dec 27, 2016, 04:36 PM - Edit history (1)

You obviously know your father made a horrendously incorrect decision that will have disastrous implications in the future.

I know several people like your father. In fact, my in-laws voted for him. My husband is quite ashamed at their ignorance.

Does you father view Fox "news" on a regular basis? Because I am seeing that as a common thread among many Trump voters. They helped to normalize and sell Trump's behavior as "not so bad."

We have to reach out to people like your father. At the same time, I think it's in the interests of our country if we do not shield people like your father from the consequences of their decisions.

He should feel the full burden of having his taxes increased to pay for a tax break for the extremely wealthy. He needs to know the fear of losing his government sponsored health care. He needs to understand explicitly that while many Democrats value his service to our nation, the Republicans could care less about him and view POWs like John McCain as "losers."

He needs to lose the safety net that enabled him to vote against our economic interests and for a con artist like Donald Trump. It's sad to say; my father-in-law just received his first social security check this month. I hope the Republicans vote to repeal those so-called entitlement benefits. Maybe when they are forced to, they will vote appropriately.